On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:50:15 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > Hola! > > I am given the command > > sudo apt-get -t sid install ^r-cran > > but gets > > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created > or been moved out of Incoming. > The following information may help to resolve the situation: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > r-cran-pscl : Depends: r-cran-gam but it is not installable > E: Broken packages > > I have tried many permutations with --fix-missing --ignore-missing and > the like, but not workd. > How can I get apt-get to ignore r-cran-pscl and just install the remaining?
apt-get install $(apt-cache search -n ^r-cran | awk '!/r-cran-pscl/{print$1}') This is ugly, of course; the proper solution to this kind of problem involves replacing "-get" with "itude". -- Regards, | Florian | http://www.florian-kulzer.eu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120323210221.GA10125@isar.localhost